c. : orderliness and regularity or habitual practice of them in action

thrift was as much in her nature as method — Sylvia T. Warner

time enough to do everything if only you used method — Angela Thirkell

Synonyms:

method , mode , manner , way , fashion , and system can all indicate the means used or the procedure followed in doing a given kind of work or achieving a given end. method can apply to any plan or procedure but usually implies an orderly, logical, effective plan or procedure, connoting also regularity

the crude methods of trial and error — Henry Suzzallo

the method of this book is to present a series of successive scenes of English life — G.M.Trevelyan

Marx's doctrine is not a system of scientific truths, it merely represents a method — one possible approach to social and historical reflection — Paolo Milano

surely not to leave to fitful chance the things that method and system and science should order and adjust — B.N.Cardozo